Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville last week undefeated, untied Tennessee wound up its football season by beating Auburn, 7-to-0, for its tenth shutout of the year. Six hours later, Coach Bob Neyland received the phone call he has waited for for 13 years: from Pasadena, inviting his team to play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Tennessee's opponent: Howard Jones's undefeated Southern California powerhouse (often referred to this season as "three of the four best teams on the West Coast"), which was held to a 0-to-0 tie by gallant...
...world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often from the time of Hippocrates), the experiments or clinical notes baldly recorded, briefly "discussed." Finally the whole structure is crowned with conclusions-if there...
...social investigation on a scientific basis. In 1929 the University of Chicago dedicated a new building, financed mainly by the Rockefeller Foundation and designed to house Chicago's Division of Social Sciences. Last week social scientists from all over the U. S. assembled there to celebrate its tenth anniversary and take stock of their work. They did not pile up detailed reports of social research. They discussed techniques, viewpoints, "frames of reference," spheres of influence. They seemed to be asking themselves, "What are we?" and "What are we doing...
...this does not deter many people from quoting any figures that seem to suit their fancies. I have seen figures ranging all the way from 200,000 to your 20,000,000 which seems a new high. My own estimate would be somewhat less than a tenth of your figure. The American Society for the Hard of Hearing is certainly doing good work but nothing is gained by making out their job to be astronomical in extent...
Around 1910-when basketball began to bounce baseball out of the gymnasium-the Playground Society of America hauled indoor baseball outdoors as a good game for kids, added a tenth player (a rover). During the Depression, the U. S. army of unemployed, invading the nation's public parks, played playground ball (or kitten-ball, mushball, diamond ball-depending on the locality). As they dribbled back to work, they took their new pastime with them. Commercially sponsored teams popped up everywhere. Playground ball, renamed softball, became the No. 1 after-work diversion (as player or spectator) for U. S. office...